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...M.I.T., and thereby force the Council into making a decision. The leadership in the affected neighborhoods was totally futile. A protest march on City Hall in late February drew only 100 people. (Incidentally, only one City Councillor showed up, and none apparently made any effort to help with any wider, more systematic organization. Except for the Council chambers, it seemed, the Councillors did relatively little...
...Advocate officers have come to frown on such lack of sophistication as they occupy themselves with the wider literary world. In the last decade, its editors have written foppish editorials scorning the semi-autobiographical short stories produced in undergraduate writing courses. One such editorial, by Robert P. Fichter '60, mocks the "Harvard sex story" genre of the 1950's; he contends that the familiar locales of these stories--Widener, the Waldorf, the banks of the Charles, a fifth floor in Lowell--have been played out. But "Winter Term," by Sallie Bingham '58, is like Nemerov's stories: perceptive, caring, indelible...
Thomas E. Crooks, director of the Harvard summer school, said the intent of the program is "to broaden their hopes and possibilities and give them a wider basis for judging careers...Just the social effect of living with students from other parts of the country," he noted, "can be very beneficial...
Bold Projects. The basic role of these foundations, explains Heald, has long been to "provide the cutting edge for social advance by calling wider attention to important problems and supporting experiments and testing ideas that may be applied on a national scale if proven effective." The foundations have been so successful at this that the Federal Government has adopted many of their ideas in such educational programs as the preschool Head Start training for deprived children, school curriculum development, grants to improve university graduate programs in science and engineering, interdisciplinary research in biochemistry and biophysics, much of the Elementary...
...Price increases, until recently largely confined to a new areas, are now appearing on a wider front...